Salvia palaestina
Salvia palaestina
Sürmeli şalba
Perennial herb. Stems many, erect, quadrangular, 30-60 cm, branched above, hirsute with long flattened eglandular hairs below, glandular above. Leaves simple, pinnatilobed below to lyrate, oblong to ovate, 5-13 x 1.57 cm, tomentose , rugose, erose; petiole 3-13 cm. Inflorescence paniculate; verticillasters 3-6-flowered, clearly distant. Bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, c. 15 x 18 mm, often tinged pink or purple. Pedicels 2-5 mm, erecto-patent. Calyx ± tubular, c. 15 mm, to c. 17 mm in fruit, broadening, papillose-glandular with some longer hairs; upper lip equally tridentate, spinulose. Corolla lilac or whitish-lilac, c. 25 mm; tube straight, ventricose above, not squamulate; upper lip ± falcate. Stamens B. Nutlets rounded trigonous, ± spherical, 2.5 x 2.5 mm, Fl. 5-7. Limestone and igneous rocky slopes, cliffs, in Quercus scrub, vineyards, fallow fields, 300-1200 m.
Palestine, Egypt, N. Iraq, Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
